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The official national Senior Corps website of the Corporation for National and Community Service.
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Component 6: Individual Training Agenda
Now that the schedule is started, the next step is for the person responsible for the training to work out the details, such as specific activities that will...
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Access tools and resources to forge new intergenerational service-learning partnerships. SaYES-Seniors and Youth Engaged in Service-an initiative of Learn and Serve America and Senior Corps, has been...
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Using volunteers with high-level skills to help nonprofits adapt and grow is consistent with what current research describes about volunteering trends, particularly regarding baby boomers. ...
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The Foster Grandparent Program provides an opportunity for persons 60 and older to provide one-on-one mentoring, tutoring and emotional support to children with special and exceptional needs. FGP has...
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For many in the baby boomer generation, retirement is seen as a second or new phase of life; these boomers are likely to change careers, explore new hobbies, and volunteer! This effective practice,...
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Knowing how to recruit the baby boomers — from motivation to marketing strategy — has been written about and studied in great detail. This effective practice, submitted by Temple University in April...
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Offering opportunities to capture the talents and experience of the baby boomers, and engaging them in the process of solving critical social issues through service, must become high priority goals...
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More than fifteen years ago, a high school in a small, coastal Oregon town began a senior project that fostered civic engagement in its students. Set within the context of a community-wide approach...
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A small, coastal Oregon town that has experienced many transitions in employment and lifestyle has come together around community-wide service-learning projects that benefit its citizens. Their...
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With support from Learn and Serve America, RSVP of Northern Arizona, headquartered at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, recruits baby boomers and assigns them to tutoring projects in local K-...
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In response to the Seniors Assisting Youth Engaged in Service (SaYES) initiative, Shelby Public Schools Service-Learning Program launched a campaign to recruit older adult volunteers and partner them...
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Baby boomers represent a vast pool of potential volunteers. An eclectic group, one thing they share is that their approach to volunteering is considerably different from that of the previous...
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Besides being philanthropic, studies have shown that volunteering increases health and longevity. But the real virtue may be in the pleasures gained in the process — seeing a smile or...
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Recruitment is a critical part of volunteer management, and an ongoing process even after a program is established. Data on baby boomers has already shown that when attempting volunteer outreach, it...
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Research suggests that for baby boomers aged 40 to 55 years, there is sufficient similarity in attitudes and characteristics to allow for the provision of a framework designed to encourage...
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The roles played by older adults in other aspects of their lives can be translated into effective recruitment strategies. The insights about these volunteers were generated from data provided by...
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As of 2004, more than 13 million baby boomers in the United States are eligible to serve in Senior Corps programs. However, this population is unique in its approach to volunteering. This effective...
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Civic Ventures is a national nonprofit organization that works to expand the contributions of older Americans to society, and to help transform the aging of American society into a source of...
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The official Senior Corps website of the Corporation for National and Community Service.
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There are 76 million baby boomers who are now beginning to reach retirement age. How can volunteer agencies effectively recruit this population? At the 2002 Senior Corps Conference in Salt Lake City...
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This effective practice based on the 2001 National Service Fellow report by Caroline E. Crocoll, Inspiring Volunteer Development: A Resource Book for Training Senior Volunteers in Intergenerational...
